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Jeff Minter (born 22 April 1962) is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak.He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the ZX80. [2]
Roblox Corporation's co-founder and CEO, David Baszucki, in 2018. Roblox Corporation was founded by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel. Baszucki had previously founded Knowledge Revolution, an educational software company, in 1989. With him and Cassel, the company developed Interactive Physics, a 2D physics simulation released in the same year.
Sid Meier: Civilization series, Railroad Tycoon, co-founder of Firaxis Games; Alan Miller: original programmer for Atari 2600, co-founded Activision and Accolade; Jeff Minter: founder of Llamasoft and programmer of most of their games; David Mullich: The Prisoner and other Edu-Ware games; Yuji Naka: Sonic the Hedgehog and other Sega games
Baszucki owns a roughly 13% stake in the Roblox Corporation, the company that owns Roblox, a stake estimated to be worth around $470 million as of 2020. [15] He said he would donate any future compensation he earns from Roblox's listing on the New York Stock Exchange for philanthropic purposes. [ 16 ]
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [98] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [99] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is an interactive documentary and compilation video game developed by Digital Eclipse. The release chronicles the software of British developer Jeff Minter and over 40 of his programs developed between 1981 and 1994.
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Gridrunner is a fixed shooter video game written by Jeff Minter and published by Llamasoft for the VIC-20 in 1982. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore PET and Dragon 32. Many remakes and sequels have followed, including versions for the Atari ST, Amiga, Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows, and iOS.